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Articles from May 2007

Citi’s Windows-based Middleware Handles 2 Million Credit Card Transactions A Day

Citibank is one the largest private-label credit card issuers in the world. The bank handles 2 million transactions a day, 16 transactions a second, with a middleware framework whose first iteration took about a month to develop back in 2000, according to Jim Payne, vice president and senior lead architect with Citibanks’ Citicards technology.

Mitsubishi UFJ Reduces Operational Risk, Improves Compliance With Spreadsheet Management Software

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI) has reduced operational risk and improved compliance management in the product control department of its London office with the deployment of spreadsheet management software. “We were experiencing vast growth in product and at the same time like most major organizations, we have large numbers of business-critical spreadsheets throughout the entire enterprise,” says Don Simpson, managing director in charge of operations and technology at MUSI. “It is vital for our business to keep our spreadsheets but facilitate use in a controlled manner.”

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Improves Efficiency and Customer Service with SharePoint Document Management

Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services company Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has improved efficiency, customer services, and record keeping for business recovery purposes through the installation of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007-based document management system for its risk management services division.

Emerging Technology: Staying Ahead of Hackers: Web Application Security for the Insurance Industry

By Don Canning, Microsoft

With U.S. e-commerce retail sales ballooning to over $54 billion in 2006, overall e-commerce sales including B2B extending beyond a staggering $1 trillion, and over 200 million Internet users, enterprises face a mammoth problem. How to secure the applications that are behind these Web sites? At large enterprises, the kind to which we entrust our most confidential information, Information Technology group may not even know how many applications they have, never mind how many are protected! How has it come to be that as Internet usage and sophistication have increased, we may be more vulnerable than ever to hackers?